How do you react when you anticipate that something negative is going to happen to you? Do you get nervous, do your palms get sweaty, do you have trouble falling asleep, lose your appetite, perhaps? Do you feel like your whole world is turned inside out? Well, I guess it depends on how negative the event is that you are anticipating.

One young woman in the South tells about her teen years. She had a very strict Dad who was very loving, but did not mind disciplining his children with corporal punishment.

One day her Dad told her to get home by 4:00 p.m. and promised her that if she didn’t, she would get a whuppin’. That’s what they call it in the South, a whuppin’.

Unfortunately she was held up for some reason or the other and it was clear that she wouldn’t make it by 4:00. She started t…